6/25/2009STScI-2009-221.STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
4/1/2009STScI-2009-152.Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
1/7/2009STScI-2009-034.Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing... (More)
1/6/2009STScI-2009-045.Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
This pair of NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures shows the appearance of a mysterious burst of light that was detected on February 21, 2006, brightened... (More)
1/5/2009STScI-2009-016.Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)
2008
12/9/2008STScI-2008-417.Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding... (More)
11/13/2008STScI-2008-398.Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The images show the planet, named Fomalhaut... (More)
3/19/2008STScI-2008-1110.Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough... (More)
